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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Keith Edmier at Friedrich Petzel


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Traditionally sensitivity isn’t emblazoned in high production's hard materials. Sensitivity is softness, not the fine detail of edges, resins, supermodels. The supermodel is, generally, not a thing of sensitivity, but violent eruption for complicated affinities, like Edimer's own relationship to precious romanticism, exemplified in Hainley's pop quiz from hell "20 Questions on Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett" leaves a sweating testee over multiple-choice: objects not complicit with categorical determination but manifold intakes:

"2. The best adjective to describe the overall effect of Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, 2000, is:
a)Romantic
b)Ironic
c)Kitsch
d)Erotic
e)Sincere
f)Vexed"


See too: James Lee Byars at VeneKlasen/WernerSusan Cianciolo at Modern Art